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Collection: September 11, 20 Years Later

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Sehar Ezez

This interview is with Sehar Ezez, a Pakistani-American with experience organizing with marginalized communities. Sehar talks about growing up Muslim in Alabama and the struggles her family and extended Muslim community faced in the aftermath of…

Tags: 9/11, Alabama, Bilingual, Culture shock, Dallas, Discrimination, Government surveillance, Hate crimes, Hijab, Islamophobia, Marginalized communities, Pakistani-Americans, Profiling, Segregation, Solidarity, Student organizing, The University of Alabama, Tokenization, War

Manahil Bilal

This interview is with Manahil Bilal, a young Muslim woman and software developer in Spring, TX. Manahil describes life in her close-knit extended family and tells the story of her immediate family’s immigration and their adjustment to life in the…

Tags: 9/11, 9/11 in the classroom, Black Lives Matter, Code switching, Culture, Family dynamics, First-generation college students, Hate crimes, Immigrants, Immigration, Islam, Islamophobia, Microaggressions, Multigenerational households, Pakistani-Americans, Salah, Stereotypes

Khadeeja Moosa

This interview is with Khadeeja Moosa, a young Pakistani-American Muslim woman. Khadeeja describes growing up as a hijabi in North Texas and her experiences of othering and prejudice. She talks about how 9/11 was memorialized and taught in her public…

Tags: 9/11, Discrimination, First-generation Americans, Hijabis, Islam in media, Islamophobia, Keller, Multicultural, Othering, Pakistani-Americans, Prejudice, Public school, Qur'anic verses, Texas

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